Stupid Socialized Medicine News

From the U.K. Daily Mail: An ambulance called at a widow's home to pick up her husband for a hospital appointment nearly four years after his death.
Denise Keeley, 65, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, said she was disgusted when the ambulance arrived at her door to collect her husband George for a podiatry appointment at Newark Hospital.
Mr Keeley, an engineer, died from lung cancer in February 2008 at the age of 72.
East Midlands Ambulance Service has launched an investigation into the incident.
Mrs Keeley said: 'My husband had never been for any such appointments. I took his death badly at the time and, you know, you just get on with life, and then this comes and brings it all back. I'm very upset.
'If it had happened six months after his death I'd have been finished.
'I saw George's name on the pick-up list along with our address and postcode and was told the ambulance had been requested by Barnby Gate Surgery in Newark. We had never used that surgery.'
A spokeswoman from the surgery confirmed that the ambulance had been booked two weeks in advance, but for a different patient at a different address. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2069021/Widow-Denise-Keeley-distraught-ambulance-arrives-FOUR-YEARS-husbands-death.html#ixzz1fULfJ31X
And then this from Sweden:
A man from Nyköping in eastern Sweden has been denied a power wheelchair despite having had both of his legs amputated as the local health authority remained "uncertain if the impairment was permanent...
In order to regain some of his independence, Stefansson applied for a so-called Permobile, a power wheelchair, that he could manoeuvre himself. “But I had my suspicions right from the start that it wouldn’t be easy, when the woman from the county visited. She sort of hinted that he could have an ordinary electric wheelchair,” Siv Stefansson said. The electric wheelchair was less desirable as it would still need a carer operating it, and would therefore not allow Stefansson to get about by himself, without the constant help of his wife. However, the motivation for the county council’s decision was allegedly that it was “uncertain if the impairment was permanent”, reported local media. http://www.thelocal.se/37678/20111201/
Just can't wait for that Obamacare to kick in.